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There’s the serial killer wing holding their tools and the cereal killer wing holding all the surviving, sentient cereal boxes from the 80’s. Also I misread it as you ‘dating’ the artifacts, as in organizing and figuring out where they go in the museum according to the reports, and I was all in reading Hypnospace type databases while a feral magic knife was in a box in front of me.

Game where you run a museum of haunted artifacts and you just date them

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Light World Ralsei pt. 3!!!!!!!! Meet my new Deltarune OC... Uh, Sir Ruffocument? Yeah, sure.

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One could go about it by Pokémonising it, turn the casino into stadiums, tweak all games to be more about skill, leave tables for people to challenge each other. You get nothing but prestige and some congratulations as a reward, maybe a trophy if you’re good enough.

Slot machines and wholly random ‘games’ would give you like, figurines/art/cards/whatever as selected/created by the local community around the stadium, you get a few spins per week/month with no way to skip the waiting time, you could trade with other players there for ones you like. Is this anything?

Wait how will there be gambling under communism if we don't have money?

your concern about communism is ... lack of gambling?

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jupiter is big enough that if you were up next to it different parts of its surface would be fractions of a second out of sync because of the speed of light, like its almost half a lightsecond in diameter

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"Hi y'all, it's Chronomaster42, the only Youtuber with the ability to travel through, and control, time and space, here with another taste test. I'm here in 1976, and I'm gonna get some fries from Mickey D's before they changed the recipe, and then I'm gonna take 'em back to 2022, and get fries from the same McDonald's, so I can compare. Now, I've got my Nixon, uh, Ford? Carter? Era fries right here, so now I'm gonna"

*everything appears stretched and distant, and then the camera flies through space, through the sun, over millions of different Earths, past the faces of individual people in a thousand different timelines, splintered day by day, the long-dead alive once more, their varied futures lying before them. They appear to be screaming*

"annnnnd here we are, gettin' the new fries, today. I have to say, I like the old fries a bit better, bit more crisp, but Mickey D's fries are still Mickey D's fries, y'know? Anyway, I know some of you guys were freaked out at all the screaming time faces last video, but like, I'm used to 'em, and they aren't even audible to me? But y'know what is audible? That's right - Audible, use code -"

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Damn bro....

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Oh! Just realized something about Deltarune, Elnina and Lanino are named after the tropical climate phenomenons of La Niña and El Niño, they’re basically rain and drought seasons which fit their designs! They just also have some grammatical gender fuckery cause they’re cool.

They also got seduced by accident by a random, pathetic guy who’s obsessed with being fancy that really messed with them, just like in real life!

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If you mess up a social interaction you can say "Failed Experiment" and move on

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More posters! And still more to come.

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Some dream bug plush concepts

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the opposite of that "orc can't read ulysses" is an elf who smugly delivers a lecture misinterpreting the Very Hungry Caterpillar

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I need someone to make a video essay about Robot Alchemic Drive because this game is a specific kind of weird where there's got to be a story about why it's like this. a juicy one.

okay wikipedia says they made the engine for a canceled giant-robot anime tie-in but then made their own story, but that seems like just the surface.

This game is so weird. The plot is expecting you to be a big fan of 1970s mech anime (for a 2002 PS2 game), it's a visual novel with WAY too much voiced dialogue, the voice acting is profoundly shit, and then in-between hours of dialogue you fight giant robots with your giant robots, but you have to do it from the perspective of a highschooler who doesn't even get inside the robot. she just has to find a good vantage point and control her robot remotely.

The dialogue itself is... the protagonist befriends a homeless elementary student, who then turns against you when she learns you, too, control a giant robot, just like the one that killed the student's grandma.

Then some lady shows up and starts yelling about how all these robots are too expensive and now you have to to watch the budget while protecting tokyo from giant robot attack.

also the story starts with establishing this is an AU where all the astronauts died. all of them. as soon as you leave earth, you die. There is no life in space, there is no life possible in space, you can't even travel through space.

Then we fastforward to some "modern day" and the alien invasion begins.

Also despite this being a completely-voiced game, it lets you pick from three protagonists: two male and one female. They're all voiced, and this never matters for dialogue.

This game is some of the Most Japanese media I've seen and yet they released it in North America like 3 months after Japan. What? Who thought this would sell? (it didn't, reportedly)

Also the game has two control schemes you have to pick from at the beginning. One of them is "press forward to go forward" and the other is "you have to alternate pressing R1/R2 and L1/L2 to move each of your robot's feet individually".

Please. I need to know why this game is like this. There HAS to be a story there .

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Due to popular demand (5 people), here’s a full children’s poem thing about pronouns!

Happy pride month!

Thinking with pronouns

The world of pronouns is a wide and wacky one

Though most only know hers and his

There so many pronouns that you could be!

Take a look at Sally’s she

She it as her favorite choice

Though it feels nice when called it

It loves them both a lot!

Will uses they as much as they can

They love being enby, it’s just who they are

Not either or neither, he or she

But its own special little thing!

Agatha’s a switcher he loves them all the same

All of her friends call her what they prefer

It’s all so exciting for her

Always feeling new and fresh!

Doll is a quite one, though it knows what it wants,

To be taken care of and wear a cute hat

It’s friends it’s cute and oh-so kind

They keep it comfy and safe from harm!

Josh keeps their he stock always in the back

They only trust their close pals to call them that

Though if you get close and treat them nice,

He will let you treat them as an enby and guy!

They all have their stories, unique in their own way

With mean ones not treating them with respect

Thinking that they know who they are inside

Treat the with kindness and love, and they’ll tell who they REALLY are!

We’ve only scratched the surface, you and me

There’s fae and xem and also yhe

Joy, hon, cir, elle and Lee

And so many as far as the eye can see!

We’ve seen quite a lot in this book

Though there’s no limit to what you can choose

Thinking with pronouns, oh isn’t it fun!

Now there’s just one more thing that I must do

May I ask, what kind of pronouns are yours?

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Know I’m thinking of necromancer skeletons making more skeletons out of porcelain to animate after humanity went extinct.

Porcelain art by Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2021-22.

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a bad dream?

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Men will literally make a technically impressive Doom mod based on House of Leaves exploring grief and isolation that goes on to win a Gold Cacoward (a Doomworld Forum award they helped create) and the praise of Doom co-creator John Romero instead of going to therapy